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0 pointsrafram1mo ago0 comments

That logic doesn’t make any sense to me. Game programming, art, and even marketing are highly specific niches within those broader fields. You can’t pick any random programmer off the street and get them up to speed on game development overnight (let alone your specific crazy custom engine/architecture, as often seems to be the case).

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nonethewiser1mo ago· 3 in thread

1) Nothing critical is lost if a video game team stops working. Society doesnt need it and there are lots of alternatives.

2) There is already a major labor surplus for video games. It's famously hard to get into and low paying because of it. There is no doubt someone else is willing to step in.

lentil_soup1mo ago

> Nothing critical is lost if a video game team stops working. Society doesnt need it and there are lots of alternatives.

A union represents workers in a company, nothing to do with society. If workers strike the company stops making money, that's their leverage

kaoD1mo ago

And in knowledge work we're not instantly replaceable. That's why anti-union propaganda is rampant in SWE fields.

hootz1mo ago

Strikes are to get power over the company, not over society.

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